Which statement best describes how the order of events heightens tension in this passage?
Pyramus had left
a little later than his Thisbe had,
and he could see what surely were the tracks
of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust.
His face grew ashen. And when he had found
the bloodstained shawl, he cried: 'Now this same night
will see two lovers lose their lives.'
– "Pyramus and Thisbe,"
Ovid
O If Pyramus had left at the same time as Thisbe
might have seen that she was not killed by the
O If the lioness had arrived later, she would have
encountered Pyramus rather than Thisbe.
O If Pyramus had arrived earlier, he would have
the lion attack Thisbe.
O If Pyramus and Thisbe had arrived at the same
time, they would have encountered the lioness
together

It’s the first one